Untold thousands of people have died in the year of Ethiopia's war. Ethiopians in the diaspora are trying to count the dead from afar. But one expert puts the chances of reaching a final toll at 'possibly never.'
Haben Sahle, 15 years old, was a top student in the border town of Zalambessa. Weeks after the war began, a trio of Ethiopian Orthodox priests broke the news of his death to his relatives in California.But it took five more months for his uncle Angesom to reach his sister by phone for details. She told him Ethiopian soldiers, and allied ones from Eritrea, were killing men and teenage boys.“If this is not genocide,” Angesom says, “there will be nothing that will be labeled as genocide.
In her late 50s, she hiked through mountainous terrain, sometimes sleeping in caves, taking part in a perilous migration by many Tigrayans searching for loved ones in the chaos.On Jan. 4, or 62 days after the war began, he finally reached his mother by phone.He feared each call might be their last.Victim Numbers 333 and 334: Meaza Goshu and Kalayou Berhe. “Killed a few days after their wedding.”The death toll is one of the biggest unknowns of Ethiopia’s war.
Determining Ethiopia’s death toll will be considerably more difficult, says Michael Spagat, chair of the nonprofit Every Casualty Counts. With communications links severed, it’s impossible to conduct even a standard sample survey of households. The warring sides have claimed tens of thousands of deaths among fighters alone.Victim on the Amhara side: Mekonen Girma, a farmer
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